Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

Rev. Albert Wagner believed in redemption. A minister and self-taught artist who began preaching and painting at age 50, he expressed this belief in both the form and material of his work. He proclaimed he had been called by God to turn away from sin and give moral and religious instruction through his paintings and sculpture. His depictions of biblical […]

Christina Vassallo arrives in Cleveland at an exciting time. Hired by SPACES as the organization’s new Director, the thirty-three year old comes at a moment in the city’s evolution that just might be a turning point. Back home in Brooklyn, New York where Vassallo has headed the prestigious Flux Factory artists’ space for the past three and a half years, […]

During a recent lunchtime talk at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Fred Bidwell, acting director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, told the crowd that the museum’s May Show—the display of art made in Cleveland and the surrounding region, last presented in 1993—”won’t come back.” “It’s just not part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s mission,” Bidwell said. For those who don’t remember, the May […]

  Cleveland Artists talk about how they put a price on their work State Representative Sandra Williams was taking a tour of Zygote Press, when–having looked at the machines and talked about outreach programs–she was comfortable enough to ask a very basic, honest question. “Why,” she wanted to know, “is art so expensive?” She was not standing in the presence of […]

SPACES trustee Laila Voss was active at the organization “more or less invisibly,” even before she got involved with the DOMO artist-designed furniture project in 1985. She credits SPACES with jump-starting her involvement with artists in Cleveland. Bruce Edwards’ first Cleveland show was also held there, in 1992. The two have shared a Tremont studio since 1994. Bruce is now […]